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Color Theory - Guide To Creating Color Palettes

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

{Hello! Thrilled to have Erin from Sew at Home Mummy back with us today to share more color inspiration tips. Earlier this month she shared Inspiration Board, and showcased a gorgeous color-of-the-year inspired collection of emerald goodness. She's here again today sharing more color palette tools & ideas and why quilters/sewers/designers might want to take hold of these opportunities to explore colors. She inspired me to create this little graphic above with some of her chosen hues...}

Color Palettes

More and more now I’m relying on creating color palettes as a
jumping-off point for my sewing projects, especially given the fact I’m
starting to use more and more solids – which, for me, is more difficult to pair
with one another given that you don’t have a patterned fabric as a starting
point or reference.

The user can upload an image and create a color palette by selecting
colors within the photo. You can then save the customized color palette, and
download the image to your desktop for further use. This app is a lot of fun to
play with – upload any photo and have an amazing inspirational palette in
minutes.

Another favorite online color palette tool is fromDesign Seeds.
Adjust an RGB scale and palettes are automatically brought up for you. You can
also search by themes such as seasons, plant life, and vintage categories (to
name a few).

I played with the RGB scale a bit to generate an emerald search and
here’s the palette the site came up with for me:

I thought it would be fun to create and share a collection of
fabrics with you based around the color ‘emerald’, and using one of these color
palette building tools as inspiration. I chose to go with the ColourLovers
palette I created as a starting point, and here’s what I came up with:

As the modern quilting movement gains increasing popularity, and we
start working with solids more exclusively, quilters may need to become more cognisant
of new trends in color and in how to apply those trends to the composition of their
quilts. The nature of working with more solids or solids as a primary fabric
within our quilts means we don’t always have that ‘focal’ patterned fabric we
used as a ‘jumping off’ point – the fabric we paired all other secondary pieces
with. Because of this, as we work with simpler “basics” fabrics such as solids
the color pairing and matching will fall more in our own hands rather than in
the fabric designer’s of patterned fabrics, as we the quilter take the
visionary role from color selection, fabric pairings through to quilt
composition.

Using trends such as the Color of the Year in conjunction with color
palette tools will no doubt make for some very modern quilting, with almost
unlimited possibilities.

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Designer of my namesake line of clutches & bags. On the lookout for color, design, and pretty DIY projects. I enjoy early mornings, strawberry shortcake, and chasing my two little boys. Making my own sunshine here in Portland.